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TM875 · 08-09-2005, 07:40 PM

You know what? Dropping the bomb on Japan put a halt to the future use of nuclear weapons. It could have been New York, or London, or even Berlin that might have been subjected to a nuclear attack. It would have happened, eventually. The US gets criticized just because we did it first. If we didn't scare the bear, then the bear might just have ate us first.

You know what? It's just another casualty of war. So, a bunch of Japanese died. It could have been a bunch of Americans dying if Japan or Russia perfected the technology first. If the bomb wasn't used during WWII, then it could have been a bunch of Russians dying, or Turks, or Chinese, for all we know.

What I'm saying is that lives would have been lost eventually, regardless. People who lived on an island in the Pacific just happened to be the casulties. But lives are lives, after all. No one nation or group of people is better than another. However, the fact that it was used gives no one the right to cast stones at the US. We tried a technology which we did not know all of the consequences of. The past is over - let's be happy that nuclear weapons were never used again, as of yet.

08-09-2005, 07:40 PM	#49 (permalink)
TM875 Addict Location: Amish-land, PA	You know what? Dropping the bomb on Japan put a halt to the future use of nuclear weapons. It could have been New York, or London, or even Berlin that might have been subjected to a nuclear attack. It would have happened, eventually. The US gets criticized just because we did it first. If we didn't scare the bear, then the bear might just have ate us first. You know what? It's just another casualty of war. So, a bunch of Japanese died. It could have been a bunch of Americans dying if Japan or Russia perfected the technology first. If the bomb wasn't used during WWII, then it could have been a bunch of Russians dying, or Turks, or Chinese, for all we know. What I'm saying is that lives would have been lost eventually, regardless. People who lived on an island in the Pacific just happened to be the casulties. But lives are lives, after all. No one nation or group of people is better than another. However, the fact that it was used gives no one the right to cast stones at the US. We tried a technology which we did not know all of the consequences of. The past is over - let's be happy that nuclear weapons were never used again, as of yet. __________________ "I've made only one mistake in my life. But I made it over and over and over. That was saying 'yes' when I meant 'no'. Forgive me."